Getting a idea of whats wrong with your PC laptop, Apple or PC desktop can be expensive with some of Tec Team Plymouth’s competitors, our policy is No Fix, No Fee and free diagnostics.

ITS FREE FOR US TO TELL YOU WHATS WRONG

So you know where to bring your computer, Tec Team Plymouth on the busy independant Ebrington Street. No appointment necessary just bring your computer to us and we will do the hard work of telling you whats wrong and provide an no obligation quote for repair.

]]>http://www.tecteam.co.uk/free-computer-diagnostics/feed/0Apple Watch Drops Fitness & Health Featureshttp://www.tecteam.co.uk/apple-watch-drops-fitness-health-features/
http://www.tecteam.co.uk/apple-watch-drops-fitness-health-features/#commentsTue, 17 Feb 2015 12:09:57 +0000http://www.tecteam.co.uk/?p=2170Before Apple unveiled the Apple Watch last September, reports indicated the device would come with 10 sensors to track health and fitness data, leading some healthcare professionals to find the unveiled Apple Watch’s health features disappointing. In a new report, The Wall Street Journal offers a look at the original Apple Watch health features that were dropped due to consistency problems.

Apple began developing the watch about four years ago, with a focus on health and fitness. It’s not unusual for Apple to experiment with many technologies or shift focus during product development, but the watch was especially challenging, people familiar with the matter said. Internally, the project became known as a “black hole” sucking in resources, one of these people said.

The Apple Watch originally featured sensors that measured the conductivity of skin, allowing the device to detect stress levels and heart-rate monitoring similar to an electrocardiogram, also known as an EKG. Apple also experimented with ways to detect blood pressure or how much oxygen is in a user’s blood. However, a mix of consistency problems and potential oversight caused Apple to switch the focus of the device from health-related to a more general do-everything product.

The skin conductivity features didn’t perform well with people who had hairy arms or dry skin, while results varied depending on how tight an Apple Watch was worn on users’ wrists. Additionally, if Apple decided to use the health data to provide “health or behavioral advice”, the Cupertino company would have to seek approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and other regulators.

While these features were dropped for the first version of the Apple Watch, sources tell the WSJ that they could appear in future versions of the device, echoing a Reuters report from September.

Last week, Apple CEO Tim Cook said the company’s objective with Apple Watch is to “change the way people live their lives” and that people would be surprised by the breadth of what the device can do, which includes activity monitoring, reminding users to stand up after a certain time period, and non-verbal communication with friends. Apple is currently asking developers to have their Apple Watch apps ready by mid-February, with some developers traveling to Apple’s Cupertino headquarters for help.

Cook has confirmed the Apple Watch will launch in April. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple will make five to six million units for the first quarter, with half of those units being the entry Apple Watch Sport and one-third being the mid-tier stainless-steel Apple Watch. At Tec Team in Plymouth we are still not convinced that the watch is for us, but we do repair The Apple iPhone and Apple iPad and aim to continue in our workshop on Ebrington Street in Plymouth, Devon.

]]>http://www.tecteam.co.uk/audi-a5-sportback-black-edition-plus-2015-in-daytona-grey-delivery/feed/0Free Gift Voucher Worth £55 this Decemberhttp://www.tecteam.co.uk/free-gift-voucher-plymouth-laptop-repair/
http://www.tecteam.co.uk/free-gift-voucher-plymouth-laptop-repair/#commentsWed, 03 Dec 2014 12:30:02 +0000http://www.tecteam.co.uk/?p=2147Tec Team Plymouth are proud to announce a gift for all our December customers.

For any customers who get their computer, laptop, desktop or PC serviced in our Ebrington Street, Plymouth workshop, we are giving away for free a gift voucher worth £55 which is valid until 28 Febuary 2015 and can be used for another service.

A gift worth £55 is worth giving to someone special

So you have had your PC serviced, you must have a friend you can give a very special gift to this Christmas, maybe a family member who is suffering from a slow computer or maybe its infected with viruses and malware.

Our gift to you will spread the spirit of giving this Christmas

This is without doubt our biggest promotion but like you we like to give, we love our customers and would like you to tell your friends about our great service. What better way to introduce them to Tec Team with a free gift voucher worth £55.

HOW TO QUALIFY

Its simple, bring in a PC for service in December or purchase a Voucher for a PC service in December and like and share this post on Facebook (here). We will then provide a printed Gift Voucher for you to give as a gift this Christmas.

LONDON―July 21, 2014―Apple® today announced that Maroon 5, Pharrell Williams, Beck, Sam Smith, Blondie, Kylie, David Guetta, 5 Seconds of Summer, Calvin Harris, Chrissie Hynde and many more of the world’s biggest artists will be headlining this year’s iTunes® Festival. Returning to the UK for an eighth year―following a week of incredible live performances in March at SXSW―the iTunes Festival will feature over 60 acts throughout September at the legendary Roundhouse. iTunes performances can be watched live or on-demand by millions of iOS users around the world on their iPhone®, iPad® or iPod touch® and iTunes on their computer or in stunning HD with Apple TV®. Tickets are free for competition winners only.

“The iTunes Festival in London is back with another stunning line-up of world class performers and tremendous new acts,” said Eddy Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of Internet Software and Services. “These live shows capture the heart and soul of iTunes and we love bringing them to our customers in the Roundhouse, as well as to the millions of people watching all over the world for free.”

Music fans from across the world can win tickets to the iTunes Festival through competitions run by local media partners. In the UK, fans can win tickets by entering ballots on iTunes, as well as through select media partners including Global Radio and the London Evening Standard.

Since the inaugural Festival at London’s Institute for Contemporary Arts in 2007, over 430 artists have performed in front of more than 430,000 fans and tens of millions more online and on-demand. Now in its eighth year, the iTunes Festival has played host to performers including Adele, Coldplay, Elton John, Foo Fighters, Justin Timberlake, Kings of Leon, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Muse, Sir Paul McCartney and many, many more.

Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices with iPad. At Tec Team we provide local level computer support built on trust in the Plymouth area, we of course support Apple products, and repair Apple computers and laptops. Due to high levels of work we at Tec Team will not be able to attend the festival however we will watch the highlights that are streamed free on Apple’s Apple TV set top box which has recently been discounted.

]]>http://www.tecteam.co.uk/apple-announces-eighth-annual-itunes-festival-in-london/feed/0BT wins Supreme Court ruling over mobile network chargeshttp://www.tecteam.co.uk/bt-wins-supreme-court-ruling-over-mobile-network-charges/
http://www.tecteam.co.uk/bt-wins-supreme-court-ruling-over-mobile-network-charges/#commentsSat, 12 Jul 2014 13:22:49 +0000http://www.tecteam.co.uk/?p=2114Ruling over prices on 08 numbers could mean UK operators are forced to pay back tens of millions of pounds.
BT is set to make a multimillion pound windfall after securing a court ruling forcing mobile operators to pay extra for 0800 and 0845 numbers.
The Supreme Court unanimously ruled against an appeal filed by the parent companies of Vodafone, EE, Three and O2, who were trying to block changes to the pricing of calls from “non-geographic” 08 numbers.
A BT statement said: “We will now start proceedings to recover the money that has been refunded to the mobile operators since the Court of Appeal ruling. We will also be pursuing claims for further termination charges subsequent to that ruling.
“Such pricing was designed to benefit U.K. consumers by incentivizing the mobile operators to lower their retail prices.”
Initially, Ofcom ruled that BT’s ladder pricing could have a negative affect on consumers after it was challenged by the mobile operators. This decision was overturned by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT) who said Ofcom had no right to intervene in an unregulated market.
The CAT decision challenged in 2012 but today the Supreme Court definitively ruled in favour of BT’s right to structure its own tariffs. In their ruling, the court said that Ofcom had taken the incorrect approach when making the initial decision.
A statement from Vodafone on the ruling said: “We note the decision of the Supreme Court today and will be reviewing the judgement in more detail before making further submissions regarding implementation of the judgement when the time comes.”

The National Crime Agency (NCA) has pooled together the resources of various national law enforcement bodies and private sector organisations as part of a collaboration to combat the Shylock Trojan virus. The partnership strategy is claimed to be a first for a UK-based law enforcement organisation.

To target the malicious Shylock software, used by criminals to steal from bank accounts, the NCA has announced it is working with international organisations such as Europol, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the German Federal Police (BKA).

Private companies including BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, Dell SecureWorks and Kaspersky Lab will also be involved in efforts to tackle the virus, which is estimated to have infected at least 30,000 computers around the world running the Windows operating system.

The NCA said Shylock – named after a character in William Shakespeare’s ‘The Merchant of Venice’ due to code within the malware containing excerpts from the play – is believed to have targeted more computers in the UK than any other nation, according to intelligence.

Developers of the malware are suspected of being based outside the country, the NCA added.

An NCA spokesperson said the malware is designed to target individual systems security weaknesses rather than the IT of larger organisations, but called on public sector workers to be vigilant at an individual and organisational level of the virus’ threat.

Shylock is typically downloaded onto systems where users unwittingly click on malicious links without realising their system may be compromised. Once downloaded, the malware works to access funds from business or personal accounts and transfers them to criminal controllers.

The NCA, alongside the UK’s intelligence agency GCHQ, will be taking part in global efforts to disrupt systems vital to Shylock’s operation, such as by seizing servers forming the command and control system for the virus. The collaboration will also be focused on tackling domains Shylock uses to communicate between infected computers.

According to the NCA, the collaboration is being coordinated from Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol in The Hague. Investigators from the NCA, FBI and other counterparts in the Netherlands, Turkey and Italy will each be working from their respective countries in collaboration with Germany, Poland and France to target the virus.

Andy Archibald, deputy director of the NCA’s National Cyber Crime Unit said of the collaboration, “the NCA is coordinating an international response to a cyber crime threat to businesses and individuals around the world.

“This phase of activity is intended to have a significant effect on the Shylock infrastructure, and demonstrates how we are using partnerships across sectors and across national boundaries to cut cyber crime impacting the UK.

“We continue to urge everybody to ensure their operating systems and security software are up to date.”
Europol’s EC3 head Troels Oerting meanwhile welcomed international collaboration on trying to tackle the infrastructure behind such “sophisticated malware”.

“EC3 has provided a unique platform and operational rooms equipped with state-of-the-art technical infrastructure and secure communication means, as well as cyber analysts and cyber experts,” Oerting has said.

Plymouth Malware & Virus Support

If you have any suspicion that you have an infection on your PC or Apple MAC then get in touch with your Plymouth based computer experts located on Ebrington Street.

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http://www.tecteam.co.uk/we-have-moved/#commentsMon, 07 Jul 2014 16:44:35 +0000http://www.tecteam.co.uk/?p=2108Tec Team are proud to announce we have moved to 63 Ebrington Street in Plymouth, our new office and workshop are open and ready to repair computers and laptops.

]]>http://www.tecteam.co.uk/we-have-moved/feed/0Apple Repairhttp://www.tecteam.co.uk/apple-repair-plymouth/
http://www.tecteam.co.uk/apple-repair-plymouth/#commentsTue, 25 Mar 2014 16:45:23 +0000http://www.tecteam.co.uk/?p=2101Tech Team Repairs Ltd have been offering a personal, professional, cost effective local service to the Macintosh market since 2002. We are Plymouth’s number 1 independent Mac repair support specialist.

Tec Team’s Apple and Mac Repair workshop is Based in Plymouth’s city centre. We are recognised as offering the most competitive prices for support and repairs throughout Devon & Cornwall. We aim to get youback up and running the within 24 hours Tel: 01752 651143

Our business was grown out of a passion for everything Mac, and the technology that today makes them such a global phenomenon! We are Plymouth’s number 1 Alternative Apple Mac Experts.

]]>http://www.tecteam.co.uk/apple-repair-plymouth/feed/0Christmas Opening Hourshttp://www.tecteam.co.uk/christmas-opening-hours/
http://www.tecteam.co.uk/christmas-opening-hours/#commentsFri, 20 Dec 2013 14:07:50 +0000http://www.tecteam.co.uk/?p=2095We will be closed from 20th December and reopen 6th January

We have cover for businesses requiring urgent assistance, please call 01752 426445 and leave message you could also try 07921509759